Handshakes for Hawks

By kidish | Mar 5th 2019 | 3 min read |

It was the best of times, it was the suckiest bunch of sucking time. Playing deeper into the postseason is certainly a small success. Being arguably t...

Playoffmetrics: Game 7, Round 3

By kidish | Mar 5th 2019 | 1 min read |

Narratives. Even strength: All: Even strength: Corsi shift: Expected goals: (Look where all of Chicago's shots were for the real story.) Series da...

Playoffmetrics: Game 5, Round 3

By kidish | Mar 5th 2019 | 5 min read |

Frederik Andersen is the talk of the hockey world after letting in two questionable goals in game five – a game that the Anaheim Ducks managed t...

Kid's Ish About Counts Against

By kidish | Mar 4th 2019 | 5 min read |

I have written a lot about the Anaheim Ducks possession play. At this point, you know the numbers and metrics and rates as well as all my impressions ...

Bottom Roster Players, Charts, Shot-Based Metrics, and You

By kidish | Feb 28th 2019 | 24 min read |

This is going to be a chart-intensive post, so I will let all of that do most of the talking except to point out what I see. It will be long. Take man...

Kid Ish on Four Ducks RFAs

By kidish | Feb 28th 2019 | 7 min read |

The free agency period is upon us, NHL fans. What this means is that there will be a brief period of absolutely terrible decisions made that we get to...

Playoffmetrics, Round Two: Game Five

By kidish | Feb 27th 2019 | 5 min read |

ROUND TWO, GAME FIVE The Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings are engaged in quite an interesting series, one that perfectly illustrates the flaw in ov...

Playoffmetrics, Round Two: Game Four

By kidish | Feb 27th 2019 | 5 min read |

ROUND TWO, GAME FOUR Game four was the Ducks version of the Kings game two, but on like, steroids. Or something. The only real way to understand this ...

Playoffmetrics, Round Two: Game One

By kidish | Feb 27th 2019 | 8 min read |

ROUND TWO, GAME ONE Although the final result was disappointing, the first game in the first ever playoff series between the Anaheim Ducks and the Los...

Kid Ish's Pizzametrics, Week 24: Thought Slices

By kidish | Feb 27th 2019 | 9 min read |

WEEK 24Florida Panthers at Anaheim Ducks (W) This was, by every measure, a good game. The Ducks controlled the game when it was close and didn’t...